Connecticut SB 357: AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDENCY ALLOWANCE.

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General Assembly  
Raised Bill No. 357  
February Session, 2026 
 
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Referred    to     Committee    on     LABOR    AND     PUBLIC 
EMPLOYEES  
 
 
Introduced by:  
(LAB)  
 
 
 
AN ACT CONCERNING UNEMPLOYMENT DEPENDENCY 
ALLOWANCE.  
Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  General 
Assembly convened: 
 
Section  1.  Section  31-234  of  the  general  statutes  is  repealed  and  the 1 
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2028): 2 
Each individual who is eligible to receive benefits for unemployment 3 
with  respect  to  any  week  shall  be  paid  with  respect  to  such  week  a 4 
dependency    allowance    of [fifteen] forty-five dollars    for    such 5 
individual's nonworking spouse, as defined by regulation, living in the 6 
same household with such individual and for each of such individual's 7 
children or stepchildren who at the beginning of the individual's current 8 
benefit year were being wholly or mainly supported by such individual 9 
and were under eighteen years of age or under twenty-one years of age 10 
and in full-time attendance in a secondary school, a technical school, a 11 
college,   or   state   accredited   job   training   program,   or   who   at   the 12 
beginning  of  the  individual's  benefit  year  were  mentally or  physically 13 
handicapped  and  because  of  such  handicap  were  being  wholly  or 14 

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mainly  supported  by  such  individual,  but  in  no  event  shall  such 15 
allowances exceed the number of whole dollars in one hundred per cent 16 
of  the  total  unemployment  benefit  rate  of  such  individual  or  be  paid 17 
with  respect  to  more  than  five  dependents.  If  the  individual  acquires 18 
any   additional   dependents   in   the   course   of   a   benefit   year,   the 19 
dependency  allowance  shall  be  adjusted  accordingly  during  the  next 20 
following complete calendar week. Dependency allowances shall be in 21 
addition to the unemployment benefits otherwise payable and shall not 22 
be  considered  part  of  an  individual's  total  unemployment  benefit  rate 23 
and no dependency allowance shall be payable with respect to any week 24 
unless  an  unemployment  benefit  is  also  payable  with  respect  to  such 25 
week.  If  both spouses receive  benefits  with  respect  to  a  week  of 26 
unemployment,  neither  shall  be  entitled  to  a  dependency  allowance 27 
with  respect  to  the  other  and  only  one  of  them  shall  be  entitled  to  a 28 
dependency allowance with respect to any child or stepchild. 29 
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following 
sections: 
 
Section 1 
July 1, 2028 
31-234 
 
LAB Joint Favorable  
APP Joint Favorable